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I don't see how any of this is a "war on marriage". Either you want to be married or you don't, all the laws and rules in the world can't make one actually work.
And somewhere along the line the idea that a marriage isn't a marriage unless it "actually works" - according to one partner or the other's subjective notion of what works - provided further justification for divorce.
In contrast with the merely practical idea of marriage held by the pagans, Christendom elevated marriage to the level of a sacrament, an ontological reality. The reality exists without regard to how well it works. The beauty of this view is that more marriages end up actually working.
And somewhere along the line the idea that a marriage isn't a marriage unless it "actually works" - according to one partner or the other's subjective notion of what works - provided further justification for divorce.
In contrast with the merely practical idea of marriage held by the pagans, Christendom elevated marriage to the level of a sacrament, an ontological reality. The reality exists without regard to how well it works. The beauty of this view is that more marriages end up actually working.
Well fine, I suppose we could have no divorce but lots of people not living together as man and wife (because they don't like each other you see) and taking up with other people that they like better, but then you would just make marriage irrelevant anyway.
You can't physically make people live together and "make the marriage work". Not with laws, not with anything.
And somewhere along the line the idea that a marriage isn't a marriage unless it "actually works" - according to one partner or the other's subjective notion of what works - provided further justification for divorce.
In contrast with the merely practical idea of marriage held by the pagans, Christendom elevated marriage to the level of a sacrament, an ontological reality. The reality exists without regard to how well it works. The beauty of this view is that more marriages end up actually working.
Alternatively, the participants might actually like each other.
And somewhere along the line the idea that a marriage isn't a marriage unless it "actually works" - according to one partner or the other's subjective notion of what works - provided further justification for divorce.
In contrast with the merely practical idea of marriage held by the pagans, Christendom elevated marriage to the level of a sacrament, an ontological reality. The reality exists without regard to how well it works. The beauty of this view is that more marriages end up actually working.
And a lot more people end up being miserable. My idea of a marriage working is that the people in it are happy and actually want to stay married. Your idea of a marriage working is that it simply exists.
What so many people fail to realize is that it is us humans that drive these changes, not an invisible enemy, "liberals", or the boogyman. And the "war" is against something mythical, not something real or practical or workable or enforceable.
It's a "personal choice" that has wide-ranging social effects and impacts the lives of millions. No man is an island, etc.
A society in which the majority of its population shuns traditional marriage and family life is destroying its own foundation and headed for ruin. We're not just reverting to paganism, but rushing past it to barbarism.
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